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 Poclain-probably TY45 from the 60's.Note how clean the undercarriage is on that one.....  Michigan 275B still being used in a truck company's yard.They use it to clear snow in winter.  Drott 80 Crus-Air.The largest rubber tired excavator ever built.  The 80 was powered by a Detroit 8V71 engine....The whole machine had a rather unique desing, including the engine mounted on the lower frame.  Still the Drott 80.....where you'll find the engine on other machines, on the 80 you'll find..... A huge concrete block!!!!!That concrete block is a counterweight.  Austin Western 4X4 grader.Not sure of the model or the era of this machine.For what i know the A-W machines with a single axle on the rear had the nomenclature "Pacer" while the 6X6 machines had the name"Super" with the number.  Fiat-Allis 945B.This was the largest wheel loader offered by F-A in the 70's and early 80's.It was powered by a Allis Chalmers 25000 engine developping 335 h.p. and carried a 6.5 yard bucket.It remained in the Fiat-Allis product line until 1981 when it got replaced by the FR35 wich was a very similar machine, slightly more powerful.  Terex 72-51B loader.This one still earn his money, working for a truck company.They use it in winter to clear snow and to move trailers around the yard whenever they need it. I believe the only thing wrong with this machine is..... .....the color!!!!! Enjoy!! Max.
Cat 245.....Now and Forever  I am looking for industrial auction brochures from Ritchie Bros, Miller & Miller, Forke Bros, First Team Auction, Max Rouse, etc from the 70's, 80's and 90's.I am a collector and heavy equipment enthusiast and these pamphlets are loaded with nice pictures of cleaned and freshly painted equipment.Thet don't have much value once the sale is over but they are a great help to me in preserving the memory of machines that are no longer being built.Please, help my hobby by looking in your old storage boxes and file folders for these old auction sale brochures.Your help is much appreciated.
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Nice pics Max, thanks for posting, that Cruz Air 80 is interesting. Surprised you don't see any on road projects today being the largest wheel excavator. I think it would make a good machine for lifting.
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Nice, a good bud of mine has a 72-51B. They use it a lot. Most of their fleet is old though, 2 Michigan 75iii's, 2 Link Belt LS-2650C's, Dresser TD7E, International TD-15, International Trackloader, International 280A, Yanmar VIO 50, etc The 72-51B: 
Nothing runs like a deere with a cat on its back but the link belt ate both of them
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Thanks for posting. Always good to see old iron in use.
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That Drott 80 is interesting. It looks like a huge rubber tire excavator. I wonder what you would use such a big tire machine for.
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Link-Belt 290, That Terex 7251B looks in a terrific shabe!!!!!I bet it does'nt have many hours on it-or it spent his life stored Inside.....whatever it is, it is gorgeous and your bud seems to have a nice fleet of vintage.If you ever get a chance, please, post some pictures, i'll never get tired to look at old iron!! Regarding the Drott 80, more information is given on that website.Thet lrovide some information on a few very interresting pièces of vintage..... http://www.vannattabros.com/iron21.htmlMany of those were used on logging operations, some as log loaders, others as delimbers. Max.
Cat 245.....Now and Forever I am looking for industrial auction brochures from Ritchie Bros, Miller & Miller, Forke Bros, First Team Auction, Max Rouse, etc from the 70's, 80's and 90's.I am a collector and heavy equipment enthusiast and these pamphlets are loaded with nice pictures of cleaned and freshly painted equipment.Thet don't have much value once the sale is over but they are a great help to me in preserving the memory of machines that are no longer being built.Please, help my hobby by looking in your old storage boxes and file folders for these old auction sale brochures.Your help is much appreciated.
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Anyway, Here's a few more......  Fiat-Allis 200 grader This is not a very big machine.Normally, it comes with a 13' moldboard, but this one was equipped with the optionnal 14' implement.  It also includes an additional side wing for snow removal......by the lok of it, it took a serious beat!!!  Warner & Swasey 550 from the early 70's.  The same machine some 30 years ago.......  Terex 8220B.The company who owns it has 2 of these machines.The other one is equipped with a winch and painted in a strange shade of grees. That being said, i wonder wich is worse between a machine with no markings and one that has been make-up with a big pen.....!!  Hy-Mac 580BT.This little machine from the late 60's or early 70's seems rather insignificant bacause it is'nt very common in North America.In Europe, it is a very diferent story. At a certain time, these were as common especially in England where they were made as the Cat 225 was on this side of the Atlantic. Over the course of the hydraulic excavator production wich ceased in 1993, over 16 000 machines were built.  One interresting feature with the Hy-Mac machines is that the attachment had 2 pin holes on each of its components.In allowed the attachment to be adjusted depending on the work being performed.For an example, if the owner of this machine needed to do some deep work, he could extend the hydraulic cylinders rod for the boom on the upper position and do the same where the boom connects to the stick. The BT letters after 580 stands for "better tracks" Regards. Max.
Cat 245.....Now and Forever I am looking for industrial auction brochures from Ritchie Bros, Miller & Miller, Forke Bros, First Team Auction, Max Rouse, etc from the 70's, 80's and 90's.I am a collector and heavy equipment enthusiast and these pamphlets are loaded with nice pictures of cleaned and freshly painted equipment.Thet don't have much value once the sale is over but they are a great help to me in preserving the memory of machines that are no longer being built.Please, help my hobby by looking in your old storage boxes and file folders for these old auction sale brochures.Your help is much appreciated.
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You've got a good eye for the older iron! You're giving me a run for my money  I would love to see a Drott 80 eventually, especially one that clean! I wonder if they're as tough to run as the smaller 40's - a real nightmare!
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm amazed to see that most of those are hiding somewhere in Quebec.
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Chopper95 wrote:You've got a good eye for the older iron! You're giving me a run for my money I would love to see a Drott 80 eventually, especially one that clean! I wonder if they're as tough to run as the smaller 40's - a real nightmare! That's probably because i've got no interest whatsoever in modern stuff.....and because when i drive, i look everywhere.....except where i am going!!!!!!  (Whoops!!!) What really interrest me is equipment that use to amaze me back when i was a kid(70's and early 80's) The Drott 80 is no longer.When i showed up where it was, they told me that it was gonna be scrapped within a week or so.The hydraulic thumb was sold. Antho, You'd be surprised on what we find when driving in rural areas.......many interresting machines being still used by farmers.They only use it 50 or 100 hours a year, so they don't bother on buying a newer machine, on the top of that, they don't have to worry about payments. Max.
Cat 245.....Now and Forever I am looking for industrial auction brochures from Ritchie Bros, Miller & Miller, Forke Bros, First Team Auction, Max Rouse, etc from the 70's, 80's and 90's.I am a collector and heavy equipment enthusiast and these pamphlets are loaded with nice pictures of cleaned and freshly painted equipment.Thet don't have much value once the sale is over but they are a great help to me in preserving the memory of machines that are no longer being built.Please, help my hobby by looking in your old storage boxes and file folders for these old auction sale brochures.Your help is much appreciated.
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Thanks Max, i believe it only has 2000 original hours! They bought it new I believe for a large job that never happened and just kept it. They don't use it all that much, and yes It lives in that bay lol. The Nice 75IIIOne of the Link Belt LS-2650C'sThe TD15 InternationalTheir Autocar Triaxle
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